1. EQ: How did the Byzantine Empire influence early Russia?

2. Early Russia-Main Ideas
City of Kiev
Written language
Orthodox Christianity
Autocratic Government
Art & Architecture

3. Byzantine Beginnings The Roman Empire officially falls in 476 AD
The eastern part of the Roman Empire becomes the Byzantine Empire
Map

4. Kiev 1st Russian state starts in early 800s
City-center of Kiev on the Dneiper River
River=easy access to Byzantine traders
Poland, Hungary, & Serbia also established around this time

5. Written Language 2 Byzantine missionaries adapt the Greek alphabet
Want to translate the Bible into Slavic languages
New alphabet is called the Cyrillic alphabet after the monk, Cyril
Russia & some E. European countries still use the Cyrillic alphabet today

6. Orthodox Christianity
The Great Schism - Orthodox Christianity splits from Roman Catholicism
Byzantine missionaries spread Orthodox religion
Close church-state relationship
Russian Orthodox Church = part of state power
R.O.C. is powerful force today

7. Autocratic Government
Autocratic rule becomes standard in Russia
Autocratic rulers were called czars
Czar = the Russian word for “Caesar”
Ex. Czar Nicholas

8. Art & Architecture
Russians adopt the religious art, music, & architecture of the Byzantine Empire
Icons, mosaics
Domes, onion domes

9. Mosaic of….?

10. Mosaic of….?

11. Mosaic of….?

12. Onion Domes

13. Even more onion domes!

14. Religious Icon

15. Religious Icon

16. Exit Ticket
On your exit ticket, match the main ideas from slide #2 with their correct P-GERMS category
You can write the main idea w/ it’s correct P-GERMS initial(s)

17. FRONTPAGE Create a FRONTPAGE of a newspaper from the Byzantine Empire
Your headlining article must focus on one of the two EQs from your student learning map.
**Try to use the vocabulary from your learning map!!!
***Extra-credit if you hand in a printed copy by the end of the quarter!